Book info

• Title Hold Back the Stars
• Author Katie Khan
• Year 2017
• Genre Romance

Ninety minutes. A few years from now, not too far in the future, two people meet. It is a classic story of boy meets girl. Except that it's not. When we find them, they have an hour and a half left. Unless they can save themselves, they won't survive. The clock is ticking. Bittersweet and life-affirming, Hold Back the Stars is the love story of the year.

Thoughts

This is such an interesting premise of a book, but I’m not sure it totally landed as intended. I love that we dive straight into the action, things have gone wrong and there are dire consequences giving us a countdown clock of pressure. There are dips back and forward in time and those bits feel drawn out when we want to know what’s happening to the pair now… and then the ending just felt unsatisfactory to me. A good read overall but an odd one.

Rating: 2 / 5